Social Activists
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How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out
$29.95 Add to cartIn How We Heal, La June Montgomery Tabron, President and CEO of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, makes a powerful case for hope through racial healing.
From a vivid portrait of her childhood in 1960s Det
- Author: Montgomery Tabron, La June
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311015
- Language: English
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To Rob a Bank Is an Honor
$22.00 Add to cartFor the first time in English, the autobiography of the revolutionary outlaw who brought Citibank to its knees.
In 1981, Lucio Urtubia received a suitcase full of cash from Citibank executives, handed
- Author: Urturbia, Lucio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355789
- Language: English
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Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher
$19.99 Add to cartAcclaimed civil rights icon, Ruby Bridges, shares the touching tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher who changed her life, Mrs. Henry.
Once again, you have shown me that you never get too old
- Author: Bridges, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1338753940
- Language: English
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
$18.00 Add to cartPart memoir, part history, part journalistic expos , Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists–The Electric Kool… [more below]
- Author: Lin, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1101974516
- Language: English
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Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
$16.99 Read moreFrederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questio… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Shana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1534110011
- Language: English
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Call Me Jeanne: From Outhouse to the White House: A Journey of Family, Loss and the Power of Love
$16.99 Add to cartCall Me Jeanne: From Outhouse to the White House
A Journey of Family, Loss and the Power of Love
Born in the heart of the Great Depression, Jeanne Cahill’s life began on a small South Georgia farm, wher
- Author: Cahill, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1964271223
- Language: English
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John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
$24.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection “The perfect book, at the right time.”–Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian F- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Arsenault, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281811
- Language: English
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Find Your Fight: Make Your Voice Heard for the Causes That Matter Most
$28.00 Add to cartA practical and empowering guide for activists and advocates on how to speak out, spark controversy, and fight for what matters most!
Before you can become an effective activist or trusted ally, you
- Author: Ruderman, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1963827074
- Language: English
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Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival
$32.99 Add to cartOut of Sight is both an investigative deep dive into the meat industry’s treatment of farm animals, and a story of resilience and, ultimately, professional and personal triumph.
This insightful and- Author: Eisnitz, Gail A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1510782338
- Language: English
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Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartNearly 15 million girls, including many in the U.S., are forced into marriage each year. Each of these girls has a price tag—and a story. Sonita Alizada was almost sold twice. Her price tag was $9,00
- Author: Alizada, Sonita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 006343900X
- Language: English
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Resist!: Peaceful Acts That Changed Our World
$9.99 Add to cartWith protests sweeping the nation and the world, young readers will be inspired by these accounts of activists who refused to be ignored.
“This book is right on time.”–Nikki Grimes, Children’s Litera- Author: Stanley, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0823460762
- Language: English
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Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World
$29.00 Add to cartAn inspiring manifesto from philanthropist and advocate Gisele Barreto Fetterman that explores her surprising source of power and strength–vulnerability–and how we can all harness it to effect meani… [more below]
- Author: Barreto Fetterman, Gisele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593852885
- Language: English
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Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice
$19.95 Add to cart“Essential reading, filled with exactly the kind of truth that this precarious moment demands.” –Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times
In 1999, Abby Reyes lost her partner, Terenc- Author: Reyes, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1623175216
- Language: English
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Grace Lee Boggs: Gardens of Hope
$18.99 Add to cartGrace Lee Boggs brought gardens to inner cities and planted seeds of hope and activism in the minds of young people.
When Grace Lee Boggs was eight years old, her teacher gave her a copy of The Secre- Author: Daemicke, Songju Ma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0807530123
- Language: English
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State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built
$18.00 Add to cartSocial justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) in this searin… [more below]
- Author: Mallory, Tamika D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1982173475
- Language: English
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The Untold Story of A. Philip Randolph: Union Organizer and Civil Rights Activist
$8.99 Add to cartYou may have heard about labor organizers like Cesar Chavez, who helped organize farmworkers in California. But decades earlier, A. Philip Randolph started a union for Black porters who worked on Pull… [more below]
- Series: First But Forgotten
- Author: Tyner, Artika R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669069907
- Language: English
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Bono: Stories of Surrender
$21.00 Add to cartAn updated and abridged edition of Bono’s bestselling memoir, including a new introduction by the author, Bono: Stories of Surrender is an unforgettable love story, a tribute to fatherhood, friendship… [more below]
- Author: Bono
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
$35.00 Add to cart“Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. It will become a Black classic.”– Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road
“Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The
- Author: Eshun, Ekow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063450526
- Language: English
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I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education
$27.95 Add to cartAn intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the
- Author: G. J. Lewis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888902530
- Language: English
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Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels
$29.95 Add to cartFrye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the
- Author: Gaillard, Frye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385442
- Language: English
